Lua Kamal Yuille

Lua Kamal Yuille is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work connects property theory, business law and group identity. She joined the KU Law faculty in 2013 and is an Affiliate Faculty member of the Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies. Prior to her arrival at KU, Professor Yuille was a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of Law and acted as visiting professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.

Before entering academia, Professor Yuille enjoyed a diverse professional career. She served as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and an extern for Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck of the Southern District of New York. She was a socio-economic development lawyer in Latin America and spent nearly a decade at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York, where she developed a diverse generalist practice that emphasized Latin American corporate matters and domestic mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and securities transactions. She also maintained a robust pro bono immigration litigation practice.

Professor Yuille received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she not only was one of two undergraduate students in the nation chosen to begin law school in the Advanced Interdisciplinary Legal Education (A.I.L.E.) Program but was one of two Columbia Law students selected for doctoral level research at the prestigious European University Institute near Florence, Italy. She earned an undergraduate degree, with honors, from The Johns Hopkins University and a graduate diploma in international studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna Center.

Courses Taught:

Business Associations

Corporate Governance

Immigration

Property

Education

J.D., Columbia, 2004; B.A., Johns Hopkins, 2003

Teaching

Business Associations, Corporate Governance, Immigration, Property

Admitted

New York (3rd Judicial Department); U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit